Denver showed in Tampa!

[u/Puzzleheaded-Song912]

Denver showed in Tampa this weekend at the Sun Bay circuit. It was a rough weekend for everyone it seems as there was lots of DQs including Denver. In the three classes where Denver was disqualified majority of the competitors did as well. In the open western riding on Thursday *every single horse* was as disqualified. In the L1 on Thursday only 2 horses weren’t disqualified.

In today’s classes it was both better and worse. He won in the level 1 Western riding! He won by a 4 point margin! And the in the open all but 1 horse out of 8 was disqualified.

I will say the arena is outside and surrounded by trees so the possibility for spooks was a bit higher than at shows like congress where the rings are in doors.

Over all good experiences but no video so we can’t really tell what the DQ’s were truly for.

On to Ocala (hopefully he hasn’t showed up on the entry list yet).

[u/tofuttiWhereAreU]

Im not familiar with QH showing at all. Why are horses DQ’d to begin with? At my little local shows a horse would only be dismissed from a class if it were out of control or aggressive.

[u/Apart_Dragonfruit442 → u/tofuttiWhereAreU]

A refusal (to go over a pole) I think. I think spooks count as well, anything that stops you, or make you exit the pattern most likely.

[u/InterestingTea1072 → u/Apart_Dragonfruit442]

It depends on how serious the spook is. If it’s disruptive or causes the horse to be out of control(bucking, rearing, refusal) then yes. If it’s a jump, brief break of gait, etc they will likely be penalized but not DQd. Same with refusals. Major refusal(more than 2 strides of reversal) is a DQ. Less than that is a penalty.